Our team is formed by a qualified, diverse, and international oriented group of experts which can deliver high-quality work in English, Dutch, French and Spanish.
René Meeuws

René has carried out consultancy missions for World Bank, European Commission and Ministries of Economy and Transport of many countries in the world. He has been involved in many projects in the field of logistics and transport and trade facilitation in more than twenty countries. He also has wide professional experience in regional development, transport strategy development, transport sector investment programs and project evaluation. Working as Team leader of many projects Rene Meeuws finally has also wide experience of Project Cycle Management and Logical Framework. He has been involved in many transport and trade facilitation projects in South East Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and recently in the Arab League.
Sandra van Putten

Sandra carried out a vast number of projects for clients such as European Commission/DG MOVE, the Netherlands’ Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, international governments./IFI’s, branche organisations and RVO. The last few years Sandra was involved in several maritime and inland shipping projects like the European evaluation of the RIS Directive, bilateral maritime cooperation between Turkey and the Netherlands (including a.o. a market research on the Turkish maritime sector, government support to Turkey in the field of IMDG cargo and several trademissions) and the evaluation of the Dutch maritime shipping policy.
Harrie de Leijer

Harrie has initiated several interest groups in the field of inland waterways transport in several countries, has been a board member of Netherlands Engineering Associations, and participates in scientific committees and stakeholder groups in multimodal transport.
His speciality concerns the development of master plans for multimodal transport systems and corridors, based on an integrated approach containing the elements of infrastructure, market organisation, institutional organisation, supporting systems, promotion and knowledge exchange. He has been working on multimodal transport and inland navigation projects for the European Commission, Worldbank, Asian Development Bank, international, national and local governments, and private organisations.
In his previous job, Harrie was Director Strategy at Panteia, NEA in the Netherlands and Managing Director of SE-Track in Beijing. For several years he acted as Consul for the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management of the Netherlands, stationed at the Consulate General of the Netherlands in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. In the early years of his career Harrie worked for TNO, the Netherlands Organisation of Applied Scientific Research and NVI, the Netherlands Institute of Transport.
His experience in transport research and consultancy spans more than 30 years, of which the last 15 years mainly focus at multimodal transport, ports and waterways. For his achievements, Harrie has been awarded with a Knighthood in the Order of Orange-Nassau by H.M. Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands.
Richard van Liere

In the field of inland waterway transport, Richard has completed numerous projects in Europe, Asia and South America for international financing institutes, national and regional governments, industry associations and private organisations.
Throughout the years, sustainable inland waterway transport development has become a real area of focus, looking into topics like: multimodal analysis, corridor development and modal shift potential; River Information Services (RIS) and digitalization; integrative development of waterway infrastructure; and various studies related to greening of inland vessels (after-treatment systems, LNG, electric, hydrogen) with the aim to contribute to a zero-emission transport systems towards 2050. Also in the field of education and training, Richard has been active in various projects by bringing in (inter)national experiences and best practices to exchange knowledge.
Today, Richard has the function of project manager/consultant at STC-NESTRA (“Netherlands Expert Group for Sustainable TRAnsport and Logistics”), part of the STC-Group in Rotterdam the Netherlands. Previously Richard worked for STC B.V. (also part of STC-Group) and Panteia (the Netherlands).
Guy Merlin Motchebe Njatcheu

Guy joined the STC team in 2014 and was involved since then in countless projects in the African region, including Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Namibia, Zambia, DR Congo, and Burundi. He has experience in port equipment training, container terminal, bulk and breakbulk operations, performance monitoring and delivering operational KPIs, as well as TOS systems such as OSCAR and NAVIS.